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A hand grenade attack outside the French Embassy in central Athens lightly wounded a policeman early on Thursday, police said, days before US President Barack Obama is due to visit the Greek capital.

An attack with an explosive device against the French Embassy, on Vasilisis Avenue, occurred on the morning of Thursday at 5am. According to reports, two individuals riding a motorcycle threw what police believe to be a hand grenade at the main entrance, slightly injuring the officer on guard in his foot.

French patrol boat Premier maître L'Her (F 792) is set to arrive to the Black Sea port of Varna, Bulgaria, for joint manoeuvres with the Bulgarian Navy, the French Embassy has said.

The arrival is part of Bulgarian-French naval cooperation. Manoeuvres are due on October 15, 2016.

The French Consulate in Istanbul sent a text message to warn its citizens in Turkey to avoid going near the Russian Consulate in Istanbul on Dec. 10, daily Hürriyet has reported. 

Noting that a protest was due to take place in front of the consulate, located on Istanbul's central ?stiklal Avenue, France called on its citizens to avoid the area to be safe. 

The customary march marking the anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic uprising arrived outside the U.S. embassy in Athens on Tuesday, where participants commemorated 42 years since the student revolt by singing the national anthem while holding the Greek flag.

As a gesture of solidarity and goodwill, centrist To Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis invited Greeks in Athens to head to the French Embassy at 10 p.m. on Saturday night as a sign of goodwill and solidarity.

Hungary on Aug. 30 lashed out at French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius over his criticism of the country's new anti-migrant border barrier, accusing him of "shocking and groundless" judgements.

The U.S. government on Aug. 13 formally returned a painting by Pablo Picasso valued at $15 million that had been stolen from a Paris museum more than a decade ago and seized by immigration officials late last year in New Jersey.

France sought to revive its relations with Iran on July 29, inviting President Hassan Rouhani to visit Paris in November, in a gesture that swiftly follows this month's historic nuclear deal.

Two French special forces soldiers accused of sexually abusing children in Burkina Faso returned home on July 2 and were taken into custody, said a legal source.